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Abyssinian plants collected by Dr. Scl.iinpor, and communicated by 
Professor Hoclistetter, of Vienne. _ , , t r 
Iliinalayan and other plants from Continental India, ^atlieied by 
Drs Hooker and Tlioiiison, and coniiuuuicated by hir William 
Hooker, of Kew. . . , .1 a • * i • 
Plants collected during Palliser’s British North American Exploring 
Exiieditioii, gathered by M. Burgeau. i q r.i a r • 
Alom, I’rom the coast of Scandinavia, of France, and South Africa, 
" ' Director of the Botanic 
Areschoug, 
presented by Professor 
Garden of Upsala. 1 i r iv/r- 1 
Plants from Java and Sumatra, presented by Professor Miquel, 
Director of the Botanic Garden of Amsterdam. 
Plants from Ceylon, collected by Mr. G. Ihwaites, Director of the 
Botanic Garden of Paradenia. 
Chinese idaiits from Dr. Hance, Consul at Wampoa. 
Plants from Switzerland, sent by Professor lleer. Director ot the 
Botanic Garden of Zurich. 
East xVustralian plants from W. Woolls, Esq., of Paramatta. 
Alpine plants from New Zealand, presented by Jul. Haast, Fsq. 
Plants collected during the Victorian Expedition by Dr. Beckler ; in 
Kangaroo Island, under the auspices of the South Australian 
Government, by Mr. Waterhouse; and in S. W. Australia by 
]Mr. A. Oldlield. . 
Besides these we received smaller collections of various donors, and 
a general herbarium of geveral thou.san.Ls w^ell-prescrved ])lants , the latter a 
donation rf Fr. Krichau ff, Esq., of Macclesfield, S. A. 
I am under manifold obligations to mercantile firms, commandeis of 
vessels, and otlier Avell-wishers to the Botanic Garden, for kind aid afforded 
in effecting transits for or to this establishment; and especially it is incumbent 
on me to acknowledge the extensive support which, in this direction, was 
invariably experienced from the liberality and attention of the officers of the 
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 
^lany highly interesting botanical specimens obtained by Mr. J. JM. 
Stuart during his last expedition, and sent by Mr. 1 . Chambers for examina- 
tion to this office, prove replete with novelty. Mr. F. Gregory has expressed 
his intention to contribute for examination a conqdete collection of all the 
plants gathered by himself and Mr. P. Walcott during his recent exploration 
of North-AVesteru Australia. Mr. Ileune embarked, by permission of the 
Government, as botanical collector in the “ Victoria” and is likely to secure 
inqoortant collections from the littoral tracts of tropical Australia. 
An additional set. of repositories was provided for the Botanical 
Museum in the course of last year. 
Diu’ing a journey into the S.W. chains of the Australian Alps, which 
was undertaken in March last, I had an opportunity of examining more 
closely the autumnal vegetation of those tracts of our snowy inouutaius, 
stretching finm Mount Wellington to the sources of the McAllister Biver, 
and in the direction of Mount Bullcr. Although suffermg much from the 
inclemency of the weather, 1 was enabled to fix approximately the position of 
several of the most prominent mountains iuterjaceut to the Barkly and Buller 
Ranges, and found also from the beautiful and fertile Mpine table land at the 
N.E. sources of the ^McAllister a gentle descent into the valley of that river, 
along which again an easy path is open into the plains of Gipps Land. In 
the performances of this jom’uey I experienced, as on former occasions, the 
most generous support from Angus Macmillan, Esq., of Bushy Park, Gipps 
Laud. 
The first volume of the work on “ the plants indigenous to the Colony 
of Victoria ” has been issued through the Government Printing Office. F or the 
second volume all the plates are already prepared, and it is likely that this and 
